Markus Schleinzer

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Markus Schleinzer (2019)

Markus Schleinzer (born November 8, 1971 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actor, casting director, author and director.

Life

Work in film and theater

Markus Schleinzer spent most of his school years in the BG Amerlingstrasse in Vienna's 6th district. From the mid-1990s he appeared as an actor in Austrian and German film and television productions, but was mostly subscribed to small supporting roles and extras. He made his debut in 1995 in Wolfgang Murnberger's feature film Ich vowe (1995), which was followed by other appearances in Michael Glawogger's Slumming (2006) and Antonin Svoboda's Immer nie am Meer (2007), among others . Schleinzer received praise from Austrian critics for his role as probation officer alongside Andreas Lust in Der Räuber (2010).

Schleinzer has enjoyed greater success since the late 1990s as the casting director of more than 60 mostly Austrian film and television productions. "I know every actor in this country who can speak a straight sentence ..." Schleinzer said in 2003 in an interview with the Austrian news magazine profil . He has worked together for many years with well-known directors such as Michael Glawogger, Jessica Hausner , Benjamin Heisenberg and Wolfgang Murnberger. He also worked for Stefan Ruzowitzky's Oscar- nominated production Die Fälscher or Ulrich Seidl ( Hundstage ). Schleinzer has also been working with Michael Haneke since 1999 . With his now closed casting office vendettafilm, he cast 7000 children all over Germany for The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009). He also looked after the 48 selected children and young people during the shoot and prepared them for their scenes. According to Schleinzer , it is always “terribly beautiful tasks” that Haneke gives him.

Parallel to his work in film and television, Schleinzer also occasionally played theater. His appearances there are closely linked to the work of the Graz author Constanze Dennig . In 2003 Schleinzer played the inhuman presenter of a deadly television show in Deborah Epstein's production of Dennig's Extasy Rave in Graz. In 2005 he played the slimy ÖVP politician in the world premiere of Dennig's play Democracy at the Literaturhaus Graz . A year earlier he had directed Denning's play Valse Triste at the same location as a director.

Feature film debut as a director

In 2011 Schleinzer attracted attention as a film director. His feature film debut Michael , for which he also wrote the screenplay, focuses on an unsuspecting man (played by Michael Fuith ) who is holding a young boy prisoner. The ORF co-production was the only German-language contribution to receive an invitation to the competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival 2011. The Austrian contradicted the report that Schleinzer was inspired by the kidnapping case of Natascha Kampusch . He even wanted to avoid all parallels as much as possible: After the book by Natascha Kampusch about her imprisonment was published shortly before the start of shooting by Michael , and in it two incidents were told similar to his script, he immediately had these two stories from the Script taken. Rather, the incentive was "the many missing children who have occupied the mass media in the past decade" . At the same time Schleinzer told Michael deliberately from the perpetrator's perspective, "so as not to draw cheap rent from the victim role and to maintain distance in the narrative" . The film project was in the favor of Michael Haneke from the start, who praised the script and the finished film before the premiere in Cannes. "He (Schleinzer) has talent, an incredibly clear view and great sensitivity in dealing with people," says Haneke. The Austrian daily Die Presse praised Schleinzer's production, in which the debut director proves himself to be an “intelligent dialectician” : “We know that the lie will be exposed, that the fortress will fall. That one is willing to accompany Michael to the end is the greatest achievement of this film. ”In 2011 Michael won the Vienna Film Prize at the Viennale and was nominated for the European Film Prize and the British Film Institute Award . In January 2012 Schleinzer received the Max Ophüls Prize for his first film as a director.

Markus Schleinzer lives in Vienna .

Filmography

Casting director

actor

Director and screenwriter

theatre

actor

  • 2003: Extasy Rave (Theater am Ortweinplatz, Graz)
  • 2005: Democracy (Literaturhaus Graz)

Director

  • 2004: Valse Triste (Literaturhaus Graz)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Markus Schleinzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Huber, Christoph: Endurance run with pump gun . In: Die Presse , February 25, 2010 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  2. ↑ Grissemann, Stefan: Appearance of the phantoms . In: profil, No. 8, February 22, 2010, p. 102.
  3. ↑ Taste Police: The Night of the Juggler . In: profil, No. 31, July 28, 2003, p. 77.
  4. ↑ Lintl, Susanne: Casting boss Markus Schleinzer: "Even the children had to be perfect in all scenes" . In: Kurier , January 19, 2010, p. 28.
  5. ^ Hütter, Frido: invitation to the final party . In: Kleine Zeitung , January 24, 2003, p. 86.
  6. ↑ Schweighofer, T .: Deployment of the political mascots . In: Neue Kronen-Zeitung, July 3, 2005, p. 44.
  7. ↑ Till death do us part ... . In: Neue Kronen-Zeitung, November 30, 2004, p. 25.
  8. ↑ Schleinzer makes his debut in Cannes . In: Der Standard , April 14, 2011, p. 4.
  9. ^ Sotinel, Thomas: Cannes 2011, rendez-vous des subscriptions, des néophytes et des Sarkozy . In: Le Monde , April 16, 2011, p. 23.
  10. ↑ Paul Katzenberger: "We are all perpetrators" at Süddeutsche.de, January 26, 2012.
  11. ↑ Into the most beautiful nightmare . In: Kleine Zeitung, May 11, 2011, p. 9.
  12. ↑ APA : Haneke wishes Schleinzer "the best" for Cannes at relevant.at, May 10, 2011 (accessed May 11, 2011).
  13. ^ "Michael": The perversion, encircled by normality at diepresse.com, August 29, 2011 (accessed December 25, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Schleinzer, Markus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schleinzer, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, casting director and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna